Public Health

The Ideal Amount Of Sleep You Need Is Cultural Not Fixed For All People

You've heard that you should get eight hours of sleep per night, a whole industry has built up trying to help people who can't do that, but like BMI, organic food, and 'alcohol in moderation is okay', there is no science to it. ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2025 - 4:30am

Food Jihad: Terrorists Use Hunger As A Weapon

Over the last decade, there has been growing international focus on the role of food in conflict, particularly in Africa. The continent has seen an increase in jihadist terrorism in several regions. Violence, like that exercised by terrorist organisations ...

Article - The Conversation - May 18 2025 - 9:58am

Meat And Cheese Scare: Protein May Be As Bad For You As Smoking

There is good news for smokers; a cigarette is apparently no more harmful for us than a chicken wing. Or it's bad news for those Paleo diet people- they might as well be smoking cigarettes. Or if you have seen scare journalism and miracle vegetable c ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2025 - 8:40am

Protein Is Key To Helping Older People Prevent Muscle Injuries

More and more people over the age of 50 are taking up physical exercise. Medical associations resoundingly agree that this is a good thing. Physical exercise is not only key to disease prevention, it is also a recommended part of treatment for many illnes ...

Article - The Conversation - May 28 2025 - 9:28am

Remote Health Care Messaging Is Increasing Physician Burnout

Telehealth, replies to messages or a quick video consulation with a health care provider, are designed to save time for everyone and reduce costs. It may also be causing greater rates of physician burnout, according to a recent paper.   Female physicians s ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2025 - 9:28am

Phytosterols In Vegetarian Diets Linked To Lower Risk Of Diabetes

Diets high in phytosterols, such as vegetarian diets, have long been linked to lower risk of heart disease and diabetes by lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol but food surveys, questionnaires, and diaries are not reliable enough to make clin ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2025 - 10:43am

Like Food Coloring Now, Cultural Mullahs Once Claimed Mexican Food Was A Gateway To Disease

In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to be banned so convincingly that in 1917, with Democratic control of both houses of Congress and the White House, they got the 18th Amendm ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2025 - 6:44pm

You Don't Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids

If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in the Republican party once President Donald Trump embraced former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer, friend of Obama, and anti-science zealot Robert F. K ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 1 2025 - 1:38pm

Does Chemical X Cause Disease Y, And How Do We Know?

That question is particularly relevant this week in light of numerous media articles reporting that exposure to a common chemical is linked to obe ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Jul 2 2025 - 9:09am

Reese's Is Making A Vegan Peanut Butter Cup- Here Are 3 More Ways To Make Candy Sound Healthy

Hershey is rolling out Reese’s Plant Based Peanut Butter Cups this month, and it is a great idea. Plant-based foods are all the rage- unless the entire market is about to collapse- and people who like vegan stuff are willing to overpay for food they can th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 3 2025 - 10:55am